Pied Stilt

Richard CR said:

I wanted to say taco tariffs, but decided to keep it apolitical.

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It's the whole enchilada, that's for sure.

I'm good on CFe cards (have a pair of 256 GB and a pair of 1 TB cards), and also good on SSDs for myself. I did buy a 2 TB SSD for my daughter who starts college next fall. I take care of the backups now (NAS at home, SSDs for backups to the backups), but she'll have to do her own backing up soon.

I see this is the annual New Year's wish list time . Mine is a short list:
(a) 70-150/180 f2.8 (already mentioned by others);
(b) 24-105 f4L mark II - smaller, sharper and resolves well for high pixel density cameras such as the R7

ISv said:

Today because of the forecast I went to botanical garden (in case of rain you have a shelter).
I always was thinking these parakeets are eating the entire seed pod. Today this smarty told me "No, dummy, we are doing it different way" and show me the process... Note that it did open the pod exactly where the bigger seeds start! The rest is just discarded.

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Lovely series!

David - Sydney said:

‘No one could have predicted the supply chain, tariffs,’
Trump put in place higher tariffs in his first term (and Biden kept most of them).
His favorite topic so no surprise for his second. The on-off nature of them (taco) was more of a surprise

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I wanted to say taco tariffs, but decided to keep it apolitical.

Some discussions on here over the years have gone along the lines of, storage is cheap and you can always buy more so there are no downsides to eg higher MP counts, so this is vaguely interesting in that context. Anyway, I'm quite glad I don't have to deal with any of this.

ISv said:

He (it's a male) probably can but after that IRS will go after you not him...

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And I don't have wings.

becceric said:

Nice photos! Hmm, I just received a tax bill in the mail. Maybe that guy could open and shred it for me.

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He (it's a male) probably can but after that IRS will go after you not him...

Kiton said:

you are right,
the strap is crippled too!

Thank god we have Billingham to step in and save Canon with the SP series!

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I have the still-in-package neck straps for all my cameras. I don’t mind the Canon ones, I just don’t like neck straps and avoid them if at all possible. In the event that I want to use one, I certainly don’t want it threaded through the lugs. Instead, I connect a Blackrapid strap with the QD connector to the body or lens foot, depending on the lens.

I do have the Canon E1 hand strap threaded through the right-side lug on my R1 (with the bottom attached to the lug on the RRS base plate).

‘No one could have predicted the supply chain, tariffs,’
Trump put in place higher tariffs in his first term (and Biden kept most of them).
His favorite topic so no surprise for his second. The on-off nature of them (taco) was more of a surprise

Ozarker said:

The strap! That's the cripple hammer.

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you are right,
the strap is crippled too!

Thank god we have Billingham to step in and save Canon with the SP series!

Also any of the pancake lenses but with weather sealing would be very, very interesting. Especially something in the 20mm -> 28mm range. Even the janky current override would be OK. But without weather sealing where I live, meh.

I take my EF 24-70 f/4 everywhere, it's awesome for my general run-about with good base quality. An RF edition with full-time manual override would be a priority 1 contender for my wallet. Without full-time manual override I'd wait for my EF edition to die in about 15 more years.

ISv said:

Today because of the forecast I went to botanical garden (in case of rain you have a shelter).
I always was thinking these parakeets are eating the entire seed pod. Today this smarty told me "No, dummy, we are doing it different way" and show me the process... Note that it did open the pod exactly where the bigger seeds start! The rest is just discarded.

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Nice photos! Hmm, I just received a tax bill in the mail. Maybe that guy could open and shred it for me.

Traveler said:

This is a good idea. I love the 70-200 f/4 for the compact size but it is often too short. I also like the 100-400 f/∞ which is great for travel and landscape but the 70-200 wins with rendering when shooting people or streets. Sometimes I need to carry both.
I'd be fine if they can do a 70-300+ lens that is f/4 up to 200mm and then it gets darker (so it would be kinda those two lenses combined, hopefully still maintaining the size and weight). But that lens would be difficult to advertise and sell.

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The 70-200/2.8 Z with a 1.4X could also be considered, but then it's basically already the weight of the 100-500 and we even have the uncomfort of putting it up and taking it off all the time. At least we have 2.8 lens when it's off.
Maybe our imaginary 70-300/4 could be a non-L lens with USM, similar to the 200-800? If that makes it lighter, I'm in. 70-250/4 with builtin 1.4x? 100-300? In any case it needs to be around 1kg max (equal to 70-200/2.8), 8-900g would be a dream come true and fireworks.
Honestly, I'd also be happy with 100-400/4-5.6 if it could make it around 1kg, I'd happily sacrifice that 100mm for 200-300g.

Del Paso said:

I guess for food photography, advertising and extending DOF when shooting macros. Of course, TS lenses are most often used for architecture.
Yet, macro features are always an advantage, making those lenses far more versatile.

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TS lenses are also commonly used for product photography, and in that context a TS macro is very useful. Not just for controlling DoF (really, controlling the angle of the focal plane, not its depth), but also for controlling reflections. Think jewelry, but anything with a shiny surface.

They’re also great for taking selfies in a mirror without the camera showing up.

John Wilde said:

"I did like the fact that in 2025 that Canon finally decided that ditching the EVF isn’t such a bad thing, but we are still missing out on the EVFless main APS-C camera, such as what we saw with the EOS-M lineup,"

Canon joined Sony (Sony ZV-E10 II) and Nikon (Z30) in deciding that vlogging cameras don't get an EVF. I doubt that they will create a future photocentric APS-C camera without an EVF like the M line had.

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While I'm still wondering how people can use these cameras in bright sunlight...
(I'm aware of the fact that many prefer cameras sans EVF.)

Ozarker said:

I'm betting those new tilt/shift lenses will have eye watering prices with all that tech in them.

I'm wondering? Would there ever be a use for a tse macro lens?

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I guess for food photography, advertising and extending DOF when shooting macros. Of course, TS lenses are most often used for architecture.
Yet, macro features are always an advantage, making those lenses far more versatile.

"I did like the fact that in 2025 that Canon finally decided that ditching the EVF isn’t such a bad thing, but we are still missing out on the EVFless main APS-C camera, such as what we saw with the EOS-M lineup,"

Canon joined Sony (Sony ZV-E10 II) and Nikon (Nikon Z30) in deciding that vlogging cameras don't get an EVF. I doubt that they will create a future photocentric APS-C camera without an EVF like the M line had.

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Ozarker said:

I'm betting those new tilt/shift lenses will have eye watering prices with all that tech in them.

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probably

Ozarker said:

I'm wondering? Would there ever be a use for a tse macro lens?

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there have always been uses for TS macro lenses. A few of the more recent TSE lenses were all half macro if I recall correctly

I'm betting those new tilt/shift lenses will have eye watering prices with all that tech in them.

I'm wondering? Would there ever be a use for a tse macro lens?

micska said:

Still waiting for RF-S 2,8-4/15-65

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That might be an interminable wait.